Andrew Caulfield, June 28, 2011-Treasure Beach (GB) If I remember correctly, the many-times champion PEDIGREE INSIGHTS jockey John Francome issued dire warnings that BY ANDREW CAULFIELD Galileo=s son Frankel was sweating between his hind legs before he made his reappearance in the G3 DUBAI DUTY FREE IRISH DERBY-G1, i1,250,000, Greenham S. Frankel, apparently unaware of the Curragh, 6-26, 3yo, c/f, 1 1/2mT, 2:33.26, gd. danger, scooted home four lengths clear of a colt who 1--sTREASURE BEACH (GB), 126, c, 3, by Galileo (Ire) took the G2 German 2,000 Guineas by seven lengths. 1st Dam: Honorine (Ire), by Mark of Esteem (Ire) Nathaniel, another son of Galileo, became very warm 2nd Dam: Blue Water, by Bering (GB) prior to the G2 King Edward VII S., but then won so 3rd Dam: Shining Water, by Riverman well that his connections are now considering a tilt at (180,000gns wnlg >08 TATDEC). O-Derrick Smith, the G1 Prix de l=Arc de Triomphe. Susan Magnier & Michael Tabor; B-Ashley House Stud; T-Aidan O=Brien; J-Colm O=Donoghue; TREASURE BEACH (GB), c, 2008 i725,000. Lifetime Record: 7-4-2-1, i1,113,020. Nearctic Northern Dancer Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for Natalma Sadler’s Wells the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Bold Reason Fairy Bridge Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free Special Galileo (Ire) brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, courtesy attheraces.com. Mr. Prospector Miswaki There=s a saying which runs roughly along the lines Hopespringseternal Urban Sea that men perspire, women glow and horses sweat. Lombard (Ger) Allegretta (GB) However, some of Britain=s racing commentators seem Anatevka (Ger) to have forgotten the last part of this attempt to Shirley Heights Darshaan (GB) promote euphemisms for this natural bodily function. Delsy (Fr) Mark of Esteem (Ire) Horses do indeed sweat, to varying degrees, but how Ajdal Homage (GB) much should it worry us before a race? The answer Honorine (Ire) Home Love 16-3-3-3, $51,216 seems to be not at all if the perspiring horse is by the Arctic Tern A @ 4Fls, 1GSW Blue Water Bering (GB) remarkable Galileo. SW & GSP-Fr Beaune (Fr) 5Fls, 1GSW Shining Water Riverman Caulfield cont. 1GSP 8Fls, 1SW Radiance (Fr) www.coolmore.com Caulfield cont. Impressive as this is, it is possible that Galileo=s record with Treasure Beach=s broodmare sire, Mark of Then, two days ago, the irrepressible Matt Chapman Esteem, is even more striking. This combination has on Attheraces warned that Treasure Beach--yet another nine foals of racing age, of which seven have run. son of Galileo--was sweating up badly prior to the Treasure Beach is no less than the third group winner Sunday=s G1 Irish Derby. Yet again this tendency to from the seven, his predecessors being Kite Wood, a sweat made no difference, with Treasure Beach multiple group winner who finished a close second as finishing strongly to gain well-deserved compensation favourite for the G1 St Leger in 2009, and Mikhail for his narrow defeat in the G1 Epsom Derby. Glinka, winner of the G3 Queen=s Vase over two miles. Turn to the essay on Galileo in Timeform=s It is worth pointing out that Kite Wood=s dam Kite Racehorses of 2001 and you will find the following: Mark was a once-raced maiden; that Mikhail Glinka=s AThe game and genuine Galileo acted on any going. dam Lady Karr gained her only win from 10 starts in a He was equipped with a crossed noseband in his races maiden race at lowly Catterick; and that Treasure and tended to sweat, though he did not get anything Beach=s dam, Honorine, was just a fairly useful like so warm as usual before the Irish ChampionY.@ handicapper at up to a mile and a quarter. On the two Incidentally, the Irish Champion was the race in occasions that Honorine tried to earn black-type, she which Galileo suffered finished seventh and eighth. the first defeat of his If this poses the question of why these unexceptional career. racemares were mated to Galileo, the answer is that Timeform also Mark of Esteem was the highest-rated son of Darshaan, recorded that Galileo=s a stallion whose daughters have played such an important second dam, role in the success of the Sadler=s Wells male line. Allegretta, sweated up Although Galileo has four group winners out of when blinkered on her Darshaan mares, including the high-class long-distance final appearance and horse Alandi, they come from a sample of 91 foals of there are good racing age. Treasure Beach racingpost.com/photos grounds for thinking As Mark of Esteem was a 3-year-old as long ago as that a tendency to 1996, it is easy to forget how good he was at his best. sweat can be hereditary. In its analysis of Nathaniel=s After winning the 2,000 Guineas, he was an impressive Royal Ascot victory, the Racing Post commented that, winner of the G2 Celebration Mile and then won the AWhile he got edgy and warm in the preliminaries, his G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. as part of Frankie Dettori=s trainer was unconcerned (apparently it=s a trait of the seven-timer at Ascot. Significantly, Timeform recorded family) and it clearly didn=t have any effect on the way that AMark of Esteem sometimes carried his head he ran.@ awkwardly and was decidedly on his toes and sweating Nathaniel certainly has every right to get warm before before the Queen Elizabeth II S.@ his races, as he is out of a mare by Silver Hawk. Maybe it is Mark of Esteem=s outstanding ability over Racehorses of 1982 alluded to Silver Hawk=s a mile which is helping his daughters establish a temperament, pointing out that he had a reputation for superior record to that of Darshaan mares when mated being nervous as a 3-year-old and that he sweated up with Galileo, a stallion who appreciates some speed in freely when he finished fourth as favorite for the 2,000 his mares. Guineas and when second in the Irish Derby. Mark of Esteem was forced into retirement after the Nathaniel=s trainer John Gosden won the Derby with 2006 season. I considered him a little disappointing as Silver Hawk=s son Benny The Dip, a horse who was a sire, given the opportunities he received, but he hit described by Gosden as very excitable--a hyper-neurotic the Group 1 target with the Derby winner Sir Percy, the creature. 1,000 Guineas winner Ameerat, the top sprinter Combining Galileo and Silver Hawk could, Reverence and the Metropolitan H. winner Bribon. theoretically, have been a recipe for producing horses Treasure Beach is the second Group 1 winner out of whose potential might be compromised by their one of his daughters, the other being the Middle Park S. excitability. The reality is that Galileo has had five winner Amadeus Wolf. runners out of Silver Hawk mares and all five have Although Treasure Beach=s dam Honorine failed at won. No fewer than four of them are black-type stakes level, she is a half-sister to Indian Creek, who performers and, in addition to Nathaniel, they include stayed well enough to win the G2 Hardwicke S. over a Seville, the colt who finished a fine second to Treasure mile and a half, despite being by the sprinter Indian Beach in the Irish Derby. Ridge. Their dam Blue Water, by the top mile-and-a-half horse Bering, was a very useful middle-distance PEDIGREE INSIGHTS... performer in France and so was Treasure Beach=s fourth Get pedigree expert Andrew Caulfield’s dam, Radiance. Radiance, by the way, was a daughter take on racing’s newsmakers! of the Derby winner Blakeney, who also cropped up as You can find all of Caulfield’s columns the broodmare sire of Mark of Esteem=s Derby winner in the TDN Archive. Sir Percy and of Sir Percy=s sister Lady Karr, dam of Mikhail Glinka..